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RFC 1424 - 3.2 Certification reply

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### 3.2 Certification reply

A certification reply is an RFC 1421 MIC-ONLY or MIC-CLEAR privacy- enhanced message containing a new certificate, its certification path to the RFC 1422 Internet certification authority, and possibly other certificates. There is only one signer. The "MIC-Info:" field and encapsulated text are taken directly from the certification request. The reply has the same process type (MIC-ONLY or MIC-CLEAR) as the request.

Since the reply is an ordinary privacy-enhanced message, the new certificate can be inserted into the requestor's database during normal privacy-enhanced mail processing. The requestor can forward the reply to other requestors to disseminate the certificate.

Example:

       To: requestor@host.domain
       From: cert-service@ca.domain

       -----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----
       Proc-Type: 4,MIC-ONLY
       Content-Domain: RFC822
       Originator-Certificate: <requestor's new certificate>
       Issuer-Certificate: <issuer's certificate>
       MIC-Info: RSA,RSA-MD2,<requestor's signature on text>

       <text>
       -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----

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